How to start preparing for competitive exams?

Which is the right time to start preparing for gre and toefl exams?

• for the students studying 3 year undergraduate course....

• Answer:

  If you want to attend Fall2010 intake, you should have written the exam before itself... anyhow..start now... 3 Step GRE Exam study plan 1. Raw Skills : Know Where do you stand? 2. GRE Exam Preparation 3. GRE Sample – Practice, Practice and More Practice Raw Skills – Know Where do you stand? It is important to clear the misconception from within. You should have been exposed to English thats good but may not be enough to crack the GRE test. You must know what your current level of skills (Verbal, quantitative and Analytical writing). You need to find where you stand and prepare your GRE Exam study plan accordingly. Hence, give Practice test. Infact there are Diagnostic Mock GRE tests on websites like Kaplan. Get registered for free and attempt Diagnostic test nnd Diagnose your performance. Actual – GRE Exam Preparation Get your resources from 2-3 different good resources. Joining an Coaching center is ok, but not compulsory. There are good resources online. Some of them are below at the end of this writeup. With New GRE Exam Changes in 2011, you have to change your preparation steps. GRE Practice Exams and Practice Taking GRE Exam practice tests is the most important step in preparation. Practice and Diagnosis go hand in hand [ How to Improve GRE Exam Score] . Just writing series of mock exams won’t help unless you sit after each exam and diagnose how did you get a question wrong. You must know your own pitfalls and avoid them in exam. There could be some sections that you do well. You need not worry much about them. Also, there could be questions you think you did well but you get them wrong. This is the point of contemplation. How you fell into the trap for a question? answer yourself. Day before the Exam Please note this, Prior to Exam Day: 1. Prepare well in advance to select your Graduate schools. Remember the correct Details of University,School,Department and Course names. 2. When you are finished with your exam, GRE test sofware prompts you to select the University, Name, School names (in some cases), Department name and Course name the test centre. Useful GRE Exam Preparation sites * number2.com – create an account and do practice (only meanings Q’s are unlimited and other Q’s are limited- good to bulid ur vocab and test ur vocab ) * gre-verbal.blogspot.com : has a good collection of gre words aggregated monthly..they say these are Q’s from exam for that month… I have not verified the claim. they are pretty useful * visualthesaurus.com : its the website . Its gives a good visual experience relating a jargon of words differentiating its shades.. you got to register here to use it fully, although a trail is available for limited use. * dictionary.reference.com : this was my dark horse. I used this for looking up every new word along with synonyms and antonyms..It also gives the words usage and history. * syvum.com/gre : instant test and results on set of 10 Q’s * 800score.com/gre-index.html : i dont remeber if this was a paid site..just explore this as well. * freshersworld.com : it has GRE preparations material * koolkareers.com/gre : it also has GRE preparation material wish you good luck...